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The Maryland Historical Society has for many years published books and exhibition catalogs of both scholarly and general interest. Each year, the society issues two to four new titles of regional and historical interest. Each year, too, we will revise and update our backlist. For information concerning older titles not included in this catalog, please call or write the Publications Division, Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
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A Guide to Genealogical Research in Maryland
Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
By Henry C. Peden, Jr., F.M.G.S.
Paperbound, 208 pages
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$18.00MHS Membership
$11.70
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Maryland History in Prints: 1743-1900
By Laura Rice
Full cloth-sewn binding with jacket, 350 pages
Publication date: Summer 2001
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$75.00MHS Membership
$48.75
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The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
Produced by Kokusai Art in Tokyo
with the cooperation of the
Maryland Historical Society
Paperbound, 131 pages
Available at bookstores and from the MHS online
Retail
$37.50MHS Membership
$24.37
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A Monument to Good Intentions:
The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary,
1804-1995
By Wallace Shugg
Paperbound, 256 pages
Available at bookstores and from the MHS online
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$20.00MHS Membership
$13.00

After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart
The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn &
Emma Randolph
Edited by Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cottom
Paperbound, 280 pages
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$22.50MHS Membership
$14.62
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The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
By Silvio A. Bedini
Cloth binding with jacket, 480 pages
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Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital
By Norman K. Risjord
Paperbound, 192 pages
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$12.32

Can A Coal Scuttle Fly?
Written by Camay Calloway Murphy
Illustrated by local artist Tom Miller
Cloth, 32 pages
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Do You Remember? The Whimsical Letters of H.L. Mencken and Philip Goodman
Edited by Jack Sanders
Cloth binding with jacket, 176 pages
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$16.25
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John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science
By Michael J. Kurtz
Paperbound, 224 pages
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Money and Banking in Maryland: A Brief History of Commerical Banking in the Old Line State with a Catalogue of Maryland's Early Currency
By Stuart R. Bruchey, Denwood N. Kelly, Armand M. Shank, Jr., and Thomas S. Gordon
Catalogue by Richard G. Doty of the Smithsonian Institution
Full cloth binding (no jacket) and full-color endpapers, 464 pages
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Lavish Legacies: Baltimore Album Quilts in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society
By Jennifer F. Goldsborough
Paperbound, 134 pages
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Alexander Smith Cochran: Modernist Architect in Traditional Baltimore
By Christopher Weeks
Clothbound, 182 pages
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St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: The Story of a People and Their Home
By Thomas W. Spalding and Kathryn M. Kuranda
Clothbound, 312 pages
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Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided
By Robert I. Cottom and Mary Ellen Hayward
Paperbound, 128 pages
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Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 16341776
By David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley
Foreword by Frank L. Wiswall, Jr.
Clothbound, 458 pages
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Mapping Maryland: The Willard Hackerman Collection
Paperbound
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Chesapeake Wildfowl Hunting: Maryland's Finest Decoys
By the staff of Maryland Historical Society
Paperbound, 112 pages
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Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial
By John B. Boles. editor
Paperbound, 272 pages
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The Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society
Avril J.M. Pedley, compiler
Clothbound, 392 pages
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Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society
Richard J. Cox and Larry E. Sullivan, editors
with contributions from Mary K. Meyer (genealogy) and Betty McKeever Key (oral history)
Clothbound, 364 pages
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The Calvert Papers: Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Donna M. Ellis and Karen A. Stuart, Editors
Introduction by Richard J. Cox
Paperbound, 214 pages
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George Calvert: The Early Years
By James W. Foster
Introductory essays by Richard J. Cox and Marvin A. Breslow
Paperbound, 126 pages
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Parceling Out Land in Baltimore, 16211796
By Garrett Power
Paperbound, 56 pages
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William Paca: A Biography
By George A. Stiverson and Phebe R. Jacobsen
Paperbound, 104 pages
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Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase
By James Haw, Francis S. Beirne, Rosamond R. Beirne, and R. Samuel Jett
Clothbound, 320 pages
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Classical Maryland, 18151845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age
By Gregory R. Weidman and Jennifer F. Goldsborough
with contributions by Robert L. Alexander, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Mary Ellen Hayward, and Catherine A. Rogers
Paperbound, 200 pages
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Four Generations of Commissions: The Peale Collection of the Maryland Historical Society
By Eugenia Calvert Holland, Romaine Stec Somerville, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, and K. Beverley Whiting Young
Paperbound, 204 pages
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The Placenames of Maryland: Their Origin and Meaning
By Hamill Kenny
Paperbound, 364 pages
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Unlocking the Secrets of Time: Maryland's Hidden Heritage
Jean B. Russo, Editor
Paperbound, 120 pages
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Indians of Early Maryland
by Harold R. Manakee
Paperbound, 48 pages
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Maryland Political Behavior: Four Centuries of Political Culture
By George H. Callcott
Illustrations compiled by Mary Ellen Hayward
Paperbound, 64 pages
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$5.82
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